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Amber Rose has been on “Ether” mode as of late. After inviting Khloe Kardashian and her entire family to have several seats on Twitter, Muva also proved her tact and class by choosing not to air out Kanye West’s dirty laundry after he jumped in the mix.

Amber Rose did begin stripping at the age of 15. Amber Rose does post plenty of thirst trap pics on Instagram – string monokini anyone? Amber Rose is a mother and no, that will not stop her from posting instructional twerk videos.

Muva Rose is certainly no one to play with. While her truths and way of living may turn off the prudes in us all, there is much to learn from her, including these 10 lessons.

Remember that old saying, “Wow, you look like a million bucks!”? I’d say it comes from a certain truth — seeing as Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, and Rihanna spend a jaw-dropping fortune on looking and staying perfect for the public spotlight. From 24-karat gold facials to personal masseuses, perfection ain’t cheap!

Let’s take a look at how much the three most talked about divas spend on their appearances — by the numbers.

Kim Kardashian

Kim K reportedly spends over $1 million a year to maintain her beauty, says the Daily Mail.

In an interview with Into the Gloss, the reality TV star bared all, as she usually does, and revealed her secret beauty regimen. (h/t The Defamer)

The most famous Kardashian spends $42 -$455 on facial creams and cleansers.

To protect her olive skin from the sun, Kim Kardashian shells out between $48 and $85 on SPF 30 and 50 facial sunscreens.

“I have this at-home LED light therapy machine called Quasar MD Plus that I got it for my psoriasis because I’ll try anything,” Kim Kardashian told In the Gloss. If you want one of your own, be prepared to spend $795.

On make-up, including brushes, foundation, bronzer, contour kits, mascara, and lashes, she spends between $11 and $62. Two of the products she mentioned happened to be part of her own line, Kardashian Beauty.

Kim K says that at the end of the day, she wipes off all her make-up with Neutrogena’s Make-Up Remover Cleansing Towelettes, which costs an inexpensive $1.83.

Because I’m convinced this whole interview was a paid sponsorship, let’s see what the rumor mill — which I surprisingly have more faith in — has to say about Kim K’s beauty regimen.

When it comes to Beyoncé’s locks, Hype Hairswears that the songstress spends over $100,000 – the extensions Bey wore during her Mrs. Carter World Tour last year is rumored to be valued at $145,000. Unbeweavable!

And here’s a wacky rumor, according to The Loop: Beyoncé spends $85 — per finger — to get a gold manicure. If you do the math, that’s $850 for both hands. Is it true? I don’t know, but I secretly want it to be!

Rihanna

The Island Princess allegedly spends — wait for it — $56,000 a week on her appearance according to Yahoo! Lifestyle Rumor has it that RiRi pays her dermatologist $11,000 a week to be on call.

“She gets laser skin tightening, oxygen facials, photo facials, even the infamous vampire facials. It’s not just her face, she gets laser treatments on her body too,” according to a source.

She pays her lash expert, hair stylist, and tanner $5,500, $2,800, and $1,000 a day, respectively. Her make-up stylist, Mylah Morales, makes a pretty penny at $3,700 a week.

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After Kanye’s recent Breakfast Club interview, where he essentially confirmed that Tyga and Kylie are indeed dating, their names are all over the internet. In case you don’t know the background, Tyga is 25 and Kylie Jenner is 17, making their relationship inappropriate at best and illegal at worst.

And while he swears they are not romantically involved, the two spend entirely too much time together and even took a trip to Paris with one another. I don’t have to tell you how wrong this is. Most of us are crystal clear about the age of consent being 18 in this country. And yet, here we have Kanye cosigning their relationship and commending Tyga for being “smart” for “getting in there early.”

Meanwhile Amber Rose was criticized for saying what we all know to be true: Tyga should be ashamed of himself. Period.

Yo…this dude is a troll of the worst variety. So you’re just going to tell the world that you’re proud of your pedophilia Tyga? I’m not here for any of this. And I’m certainly not here for the people who are suggesting that we “mind our business” or just go with it because, hell, it’s the Kardashian family.

Naw.

There are far too many underaged girls being preyed upon by grown men and the more people rationalize this very public and grotesque display of it the more this type of problematic and damaging type of thinking starts creeping into the general consciousness.

So I’m with Amber Rose with this one. Tyga should be ashamed to show his face…and certainly shouldn’t be posting Kylie on his IG. And Kris Jenner…sigh I just don’t know what to call a woman that would allow this type of relationship. No lie, the only word that comes to my mind is pimp.

That whole family is sleazy and Kanye was the one who had to take “30 showers” before he could enter into the klan because he was with Amber Rose?!? GTFOH.

Kanye West recently stopped by Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club and he did not hold his tongue one bit. The rapper spoke on just about everything including his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose’s feud with the Kardashian clan, why he rides so hard for Beyonce and the controversy surrounding Tyga’s relationship with Kylie Jenner. Check out a few highlights from his chat below, but please brace yourself.

On if he feels he should reach out to Amber:

“She’s just soaking in the moment. I don’t feel compelled to do nothing. If Kim dated me when I first wanted to be with her there wouldn’t be a Amber Rose.”

On if Kim sent him inappropriate texts while he was with Amber:

“I wish. I would have gladly, happily would’ve liked to. It’s very hard for a woman to want to be with someone who was with Amber Rose. She wasn’t sending nothing. I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim. Don’t ask me no more [laughs] I just want to be respectful.”

On if Tyga and Kylie Jenner’s relationship is inappropriate:

“I think he got in there early; he’s being smart. They closer in age than a lot of relationships that I know. I knew Tyga was smart.”

On the Kardashian brand’s impact on his business affairs:

“It’s helped. It shows my ability to bridge the gap.”

On Kim’s Paper magazine shoot:

“Respected art can break class. One of the things that shut up a lot of people is the fact that Jean-Paul Goude took the photograph. He used to shoot Grace Jones and Grace Jones’ figure was as new and different as Kim’s physique was. Our position of power, we’re not going to accept the physique that was given to us. The one that was told to us was the proper way to look. My daughter has a chance of being shaped like my wife. Between this age she is now until the age when she’s like that, I’m going to be fighting for that shape to be considered the highest of class or at least equal to how someone looks at a skinny model.”

On why he rides so hard for Beyoncé:

“It’s really ironic that every time [I speak out about award shows] it’s Beyoncé. For some reason…why is it Beyoncé? Why don’t I go off on like you know, whoever is going off on my wife on Twitter and sh-t like that? Why do I cater to…you know I think Beyoncé is a great representation of an artist working hard and trying her best and getting the results from it. Beyoncé’s previous album wasn’t as well received as this new album. She went low like I went low on my album and delivered something that everybody loves. In America, we have to respect greatness when we see it.”

“You can’t have somebody hit all the shots and you not give them that credit […] People look at Beyoncé and say because she’s rich—respect to Hov—but she’s a beautiful woman, she’s talented and they figure she’s got everything so she doesn’t need nothing else. I think she needs the proper accolades because she’s an inspiration.”

Maybe Kayne was inspired by the controversial “Vest or Vote” campaign by social justice group The Dream Defenders last year in which the group took out ads of featuring kids wearing bulletproof vests. It was a very graphic effort to get out the vote for the midterm elections n Florida.

Whatever is inspiring West’s fashions most attendees at his New York Fashion Week show were not too impressed. Not even North, who cried during the show.

“Kanye West wants to be a fashion designer. And he wants it really badly. But the reviews are in on his most recent collection and the result is…meh,” reports The Daily Beast. All around West got thumbs down for his line, which some dubbed Walking Dead wear.

Wearing shredded clothing in drab earth tones, the models made a depressing march down the catwalk. The clothes may in tatters, but the price tag isn’t. One sweater by West costs $600.

It’s not that West hasn’t had a successful turn in fashion. His show brands, from Nike to Adidas to Louis Vuitton, have consistently sold. But his clothes designs left much to be desire.

Should he leave his day job? Knowing West, he won’t give up.

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Even a blind man can see that Kanye West is madly in love with his wife, Kim Kardashian, but the “Bound 2” rapper admits that forming a relationship with his dream girl came with a price. According to the designer, most of his fashion friends wanted no parts of Kim and when the two hooked up, they distanced themselves from him.

“Soon as we started dating, fashion people were really opposed to the idea of reality stars. And all the relationships, the somewhat friends that I had somewhat built up, completely turned their backs on her and me. They already had their back to her, and now they turned it to me,” he told Style.com

However, according to West, things eventually changed for him, but this turn-around didn’t come without effort.

“She was always my muse, now she’s become other designers’ muses,” he expressed. “The so-called traction that I was getting in the high-fashion world was completely thrown out the window and I was finally allowed to go to school.”

“Every day I was in my mom [Kris Jenner]’s house, in my little brother’s old room, Rob’s old room, re-tailoring a Céline skirt, re-tailoring a Saint Laurent jacket, re-tailoring a Zara top, re-tailoring Wolford … And day by day by day, [Kim and I] learned, we got better. We looked at the photographs together and she improved my style, we improved each other.”

Despite the rockiness encountered on the road to romance and fashion, it seems that West wouldn’t trade the experience for the world because through it all, he found his “purpose.”

“I didn’t know who I was until I had a daughter,” he admitted. “And then I realized that the purpose of life was to protect her and my wife at all costs. And that is who I am.”

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The most ignorant word in the English language might have to be “classy.”

We often use it as an adjective to describe refinement and respectability. However, I wrote before about the term also being used to justify and even mask some pretty despicable behavior from folks. This time around, it’s being used to encourage slut-shaming.

We all know how slut-shaming works: Basically, a woman can be an ax-murdering, tax-cheating, baby-kicking, don’t-know-how-to-fry-a-piece-of-chicken-worth-a-damn bogey(wo)man, but she better not have had sexual relations with multiple men outside of a good religious-based marriage (with a man), or else, she’s a slut. And there is nothing worse for a woman to be in the world than a slut, right?

Hell, you don’t even have to be promiscuous to be considered a “slut.” Sometimes a shortened hemline can get you that label. Sometimes it is how you talk or even where you were born, which could result in you wearing the scarlet letter. You can just be an attractive woman in a space where men are scarce and be hit with the “slut” label. I was actually called a “dumb slut” one time for cutting a guy off in traffic. Try to make sense of that one…

But while it is true that every woman in society has to maneuver around the landmines that can get them labelled as sluts, it is also true that “class” is often used as a shield to protect some while also being used as a tool to oppress others: like women of more marginalized identities.

I see much of that at the center of the Amber Rose and Khloe Kardashian Twitter/Instagram beef. Rose, who used to date Kanye West, who is now married to Kim Kardashian, called herself standing up for her new BFF, Blac Chyna, who has a child with rapper Tyga. In case you missed it, Tyga is allegedly getting a little too close with 17-year-old Kylie Jenner, the younger sister of Kim Kardashian, who was Chyna’s good friend at one time.

In an interview with The Breakfast Club, Rose says this:

Amber Rose: “She’s a baby, she needs to go to bed at 7 o’clock and relax. Nah, I’m over that. That’s ridiculous. He should be ashamed of himself. That’s how I feel, for sure.”

Angela Yee: “What happens if you run into them in LA?”

Rose: “I ain’t speaking to them. At all. That’s ridiculous He has a beautiful woman and a baby and left that for a 16-year-old that just turned 17. Like, hah. But guess what, that’s up to her and her mother.”

I get Rose’s point here. This is a grown man who broke up with the mother of his child only to turn around and pal around with an individual who hasn’t even come into adulthood yet. There is something predatory in all of it that bothers me. If I were Kris Jenner, no way would I want Tyga, who clearly has issues he needs to sort out internally, to be around my impressionable child. And if these were non-celebrities with non-celebrity identities, I think a whole lot of other folks would likely feel the same way about this situation too.

However, Rose’s last thought about it all being “up to her and her mother” is what she probably should have stuck with when asked to comment about their relationship. After all, none of this is any of her business. You don’t see Blac Chyna saying anything and sticking up for herself. Matter of fact, when the beef started, it was Chyna who sent out an Instagram message about how “unbothered” she was with the whole dust-up (some best friend she is…). So why is Rose being so messy?

Me thinks there is tinge of jealousy and envy simmering beneath the tweets. As noted in an article from Complex, in the same interview, Rose made some equally side-eye worthy remarks about another Kardashian sister. In particular, she tells the Breakfast Club:

“When Kim first came out, I was like, ‘Who the f**k is this Puerto Rican girl with Paris Hilton?! This b***h is beautiful!’ Yeah, I thought she was Puerto Rican, I’m from the East Coast. So, that’s initially what I thought of Kim. I was just like, ‘Wow, this girl’s amazing.’” So, what changed? “But it’s just sh*t that I see her do, like she posted a selfie, and she had like one of her boobs out of the bra or whatever. It’s just fake to me,” Rose said. “If I wanna have my titties out, on a beach, that’s exactly what I’m gonna do. “I’m not gonna have my titties out and be like, [impersonating Kardashian] ‘Oh my god! I can’t believe like, uh, they caught me with my boobs out!”

Well that might be because the masses don’t react the same way to a bare-breasted Rose as they do to a naked Kim K. And that is no shade. Both are beautiful women with exceptionally crafted bodies, but as Awesomely Luvvie once wrote, The Kim Kardashian Model doesn’t work for black women.”

In other words, while a topless and bottomless sex tape made by the daughter of a late high-powered attorney is viewed as shocking, cheeky and even artful, a nude Rose is not. Why? Because it’s not viewed anywhere out of the normal realm of what we kind of expected from a biracial former exotic dancer from the low-income part of South Philly. Therefore, no one is going to care too much if Rose is on the beach topless, because in the minds of the masses, she never embodied the ideals of what we deem as “classy” anyway – even if the “class” we are talking about here is who has access to selling “respectable” yet s*xy images.

And that has to rightfully bother Rose, who makes her living off of her image, especially her body. Truth be told, she should have been the one who #BrokeTheInternet with that viral and history-making editorial styled by Jean-Paul Goude. Hell, she has the better and more natural form, with the legitimate genetic roots. But that pesky white woman privilege got in the way of all of that. So once again, it is Kim K’s sexuality that gets endorsed and institutionalized by the system, while the blogs are debating if the pictures of Rose standing on a balcony overlooking a beach in a string bikini makes her looks like a classless slut, or worse, a classless slut and bad mom.

According to the Huffington Post, a study published last year in Social Psychology Quarterly has revealed “that when a particular group of women call each other ‘sluts,’ it has little to do with perceived or actual promiscuity, and everything to do with social class.” I can definitely see that. And I’m sure that’s what Kylie’s big sister Khloe meant to highlight when she decided to fire back at Rose in a series of tweets for meddling in family business. In particular, she writes in two tweets:

“’I was a stripper since I was 15 years old,’ Amber Rose told Foxx. Please don’t worry about my sister who has a career & her sh*t together at ONLY 17…people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. (2) Please stop talking about us in interviews mama. None of us talk about you.”

To which Rose would respond:

“I’ll be that lil whore to support my family like ur older sister is a whore 2 support hers. We’re even”

Well, those are just fighting words. And that’s what happened for the rest of the afternoon. The two “celebs” traded jabs, memes and old leaked pictures about who was the sluttiest of them all. A winner in the slut wars has yet to be declared, but it was clear that Rose definitely was in her feelings.

And who could blame her? If Rose was stripping since 15 years of age, then she didn’t have the privilege of protection, which Kylie has in her life. And I’m guessing the same can be said for Rose’s BFF, Blac Chyna, who started her dancing career supposedly at 18 years old. There was no silver spoon in place to pay off media, clean up images and pad her fall in the event that Tyga tried to screw her over and leave her as a single mother. Everything for those two has been a grind upwards. And while Kylie’s decisions are respected by the public at large as an exercise in being sexually liberated, unfortunately, we haven’t really come around to seeing either Rose or Chyna, who are adults now, as anything more than glorified sluts.

After Wiz talked his ish all on Twitter, Amber Rose, who actually has a couple of things to promote, has made recent appearances on Hot 97 and most recently The Breakfast Club. And in the latter, she opened up about everything from waiting on Wiz to grow up and come home, even after she filed for divorce, to James Harden, the NBA baller she’s currently dating and even why Wiz was going off on her via Twitter.

See what she had to say.

Wanting to work it out

Of course. He was the love of my life. It wasn’t over for me for a long time. I cried it out. I cried a lot, like all day, everyday. I cried and cried and wanted him to come home. He’s young and has a lot of life to live and now that I’m done crying, all the girls don’t bother me anymore.

I’ll never say never because he’s the father of my child and he’s still technically my husband. And I’ll always love him. But right now, I’m not with that sh*t…It’s like ‘Dude, that’s not you.’ That’s not the man that I know. But apparently that’s who he is now and I don’t want to be a part of that.

Why she filed for divorce

Amber: When something irrational happens to you, you then act irrationally and that’s why I filed for divorce so quickly. He was just changing. You all know, Wiz isn’t a bad guy…great spirit, that’s why I married him.

Charlemagne: Wiz is a young rapper, he’s allowed at least three hall passes…

Amber: What if he…

DJ Envy: …used them up.

Amber nods.

Yee: Do you think you changed at all in the marriage?

Amber: For sure. I became a mother. I’m not at the club every night downing shots. My priorities definitely did change.

Why Wiz called her a ‘foul creature’

Amber: Because he was mad. He was mad that I cut Sebastian’s hair. My son has a lot of hair and he’s a strong little boy. So I always try to deep condition his hair in the back when he lays on it. And he’s not having it. And by him sleeping on it was starting to get matted in one spot. And I couldn’t get it out. He wouldn’t let me brush it or comb it or nothing. I was like this boy needs a haircut. Cam obviously wanted his hair to be long but the boy needed a haircut. I’m not going to walk around with my son having a dread in the back of his head.

Envy: That’s the problem. You got to talk to him before you take your son to the barbershop.

Amber: I did!

Envy: But you did it anyway.

Amber: But my son was in pain though. He was going ‘Mommy, mommy.’ He was pulling it, it was hurting him. That’s my baby. I’m not going to see my son in pain.

Which explains this tweet:

Source: Twitter

Amber: You know you get petty when you’re still in love with someone.

Her friendship with Blac Chyna

Amber: I ran into her at the mall in L.A. I was a little nervous about being friends with her because she was friends with with Kim.

Charlemagne: So you don’t rock with Kim?

Angela Yee: Duh! She was sending naked pictures to Kanye and she asked her to stop, when they were dating, and she didn’t stop.

Amber: I was nervous at first with Chyna but when we started talking…she’s just an amazing girl. The thing I love about Chyna, to this day, is that as many times as she hung out with Kim, she never came to me and told me anything bad about Kim. So I feel like she wouldn’t do that to me. Her and Kim’s relationship didn’t work out.

Yee: Because of Tyga I’m sure.

Amber: She’s always said that Kim was a very nice girl. It really doesn’t have to do anything with Kim. It’s just a very awkward situation.

Valentine’s Day

Amber: I have a valentine this year.

Yee: Is it James Harden?

Silence

Amber: Me and James have a very special friendship, for sure.

Charlemagne: You put your pussy on James’ side burns.

Amber: Not yet. I didn’t get the D yet. I’m not going to lie. But Valentine’s day is tomorrow. If he acts right…

Charlemagne: Wiz going to roll up a blunt thiissss big….

Amber: I met him in Vegas a month ago and we just had a conversation…when I met him we just developed a really nice friendship.

Back to Wiz

Amber: I waited at home for him for a long time. I waited, and I waited and I waited.

Envy: So you would have forgave him?

Amber: Yeah. I did. I already have.

Envy: You have a tattoo of Wiz on your arm. Are you going to cover it?

Amber: I’m not in a rush. My son sees that on my arm and he’s like ‘Daddy.’ It’s not really a big deal for me.

Charlemagne: I got a feeling that you’re waiting for Wiz to grow up.

Amber: I want to! Ideally, I would want him to come home and we could start over. But now, I’m kind of at the point where…you know, I waited for him. I did. Even after I filed and everything, I still waited for him to come home. He just didn’t. He never came home. And there comes a point where I can’t be lonely every night. I can’t sit around and wait for him to grow up. I just can’t. I have to move on.

Yee: Does he ever flip flop though and send you text messages like ‘we need to start all over’?

Amber: He has but he still ain’t never come home. And that’s something that I had to deal with. Like I said, I cried a lot. My heart was broken. Thank God I had Chyna with me every single day and my assistant and my mom to talk me through it. I just listened to a lot of Alanis Morisette. A lot of Trina. God bless you Trina.

Charlemagne: If y’all do get back together, it’s going to be hard if you stack up a higher body count.

Amber: Didn’t I just tell you I waited for my husband? I’d been waiting for him. He didn’t come home. So now, if I have a Valentine that’s a really nice guy, that treats me nice, if I want to get the D, Ima get the D. Trust me. That’s it.

Envy: Get that D!

Tyga and Kylie

Amber: She’s a baby. She needs to go to bed. It’s 7’o clock. And relax. Nah, I’m over that. That’s ridiculous. He should be ashamed of himself. That’s how I feel for sure.

Yee: What happens if you run into them in LA?

Amber: I ain’t speaking to them. At all. He has a beautiful woman and a baby and left that for a sixteen year old that just turned seventeen. Nah.

But guess what, that’s up to her and her mother…

Listen, I really don’t hate those girls but I just don’t respect them.

Charlemagne: Why don’t you respect them because a lot of people would say some of the things you guys do are similar?

Amber: It’s really not though. Because if I want to have my titties out on the beach, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’m not going to have my titties and be like ‘Oh my God I can’t believe they caught me…’ It’s just fake to me. She’s such a beautiful girl and she has the potential to be really dope but, to me, she’s not. It has nothing to do with Kanye.

Charlemagne: Do you think she and Kanye are a good match?

Amber: They are a match made in heaven for sure.

Charlemagne: I heard that you broke up with him.

Amber: I definitely left Kanye for sure.

Even though I grabbed all the juiciest parts for y’all, I strongly suggest listening to the whole segment. In it she talks about how she keeps her face looking right. Her new book, How To Be A Bad Bitch, where she discusses all the mistakes she’s made in her life and career and more.

If you’ve been on social media at all this weekend, chances are you’ve stumbled across images of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s baby girl, North West, having full-fledged tantrums at multiple New York Fashion Week runway shows. As previously reported, Nori’s first breakdown occurred at her daddy’s Adidas show last week.

Kanye recently spoke out about Nori’s little episode and according to Necole Bitchie, he had a rather interesting explanation.

“Maybe she was just scared for her daddy,” West reportedly said backstage. “She just wanted people to stop being mean to her daddy because she knows that her daddy loves the world and just wants to make it a more beautiful place.”

Unfortunately, her parents did not learn their lesson and decided against leaving her with a babysitter while they attended the Alexander Wang show the following Saturday. Though little miss thing was dressed to the nines and looking adorable as ever, she was clearly not here for that show either (which we don’t blame her for). Unsurprisingly, another tantrum ensued, but a witness seated near the pint-sized hip hop heiress claimed that there was a far simpler explanation than the one her daddy provided days earlier.

“North was actually so good throughout Alexander’s show but had a moment for one second when she saw a photographer on the other side of the runway with a toy monkey that looked exactly like her favorite one at home,” the source told Perez Hilton. “She is obsessed with it and when she saw the photographer holding the same one, she started crying and reaching out with for it for a few seconds. But then it passed and she was good for the show. After the show, the photographer was really nice and came over and gave her the stuffed animal, and she was happy.”

Of course, we can’t ignore the elephant in the room. Stuffy runway shows are no place for a toddler. But perhaps it will take a few more episodes for her parents to figure that out.

New York City is pretty much always popping. But this week things are exceptionally turnt as the city is hosting both fashion week and the NBA All Star Weekend events and festivities. And while both of these events are certainly fun and entertaining for adults, the same is not necessarily true for babies.. That was quite evident with little Miss North West at her father’s Adidas fashion show. Though North West has been seated front row at fashion shows before; now that she’s one, she’s a bit more expressive about what she does and doesn’t like. And based on her mini tantrum at the fashion show, it seems, like most children her age, she doesn’t like having to sit still just to watch models walk down a runway. Take a look at some of the pictures of her mini fall out and be sure to caption what her mother, Beyoncé, Diddy, Jay Z, Anna Wintour and especially North West were thinking at the time.